November 2009
“It’s a depressing thing what’s going on with the person in the song, but it’s...”
– John Darnielle introducing Isaiah 45:23 at The Fillmore in San Francisco, 11/14/09. (via fuckyeahthemountaingoats)
Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only one question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can...
Nature’s first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
- Robert Frost
“His lord said to him, Well done, servant, good and faithful, over a few things...”
– Matthew 25:21